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navrins ([personal profile] navrins) wrote in [personal profile] gaudior 2009-08-13 08:08 pm (UTC)

Sure - if the phrases to which I was reacting had been posted by someone who looks a different gender from how they wish to be treated, I wouldn't have found it at all surprising and wouldn't have asked the question I asked [livejournal.com profile] gaudior. It doesn't surprise me at all to know that trans people find it difficult to be treated in a way that allows them to be who they choose to be (who they are? I don't know; this is an arguable area and I'm not sure what side of the argument I'd want to be on were I having it, which I don't want to be anyway).

I can believe there may be specific other cases that are similar, although none are leaping to mind. (Thinking further I suppose race, in some cases... H.L.Gates now comes to mind.) But I'm pretty sure [livejournal.com profile] gaudior isn't in any of those situations, and certainly few if any of the examples she cited seemed to suggest that sort of thing, so I was at a loss (now resolved) to understand why she felt that way.

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